this question is for those of you[male and female]with tatoos,did you decide one day to get one for your own reasons or were you following the fad like so many others do?[i've been wondering and would like to hear from you on this subject].
PoeticManifesta said:and I got Bast and Sekhmet... the egyptian cat gods back to back...
one with a devilish look on her face.. with tears.. (sekhmet) and Bast with a face full of laughter... (laugh now cry later)... in my own version... being that my date had to work the majority of that day.. i felt this was appropriate..
its not fad.. i feel tatoos are apart of my heritage... africans did it.. samoans did it .. indians..and asians did it. So im reclaiming my heritage.. and a sense of never being alone because my ancestors are always there with me..
PoeticManifesta said:I have 2 tatoos currently..
I did the first one as a righteous act expressing my freedom to make my own concious deciscions without my parent, and it was valentines day.. and I was alone.
So.. I had went to the tatoo parlor with a friend.. who was experiencing the same sentiment.. and wanted to rid ourselves of the pain of bein alone and replace it with another one. It worked wonderfully... I have an angel on my back.. with her wings spread. and the words "never alone" below it.
Its very sentimental.
the second I got... last valentines day.. In which i was alone again for the majority of the day..
and I got Bast and Sekhmet... the egyptian cat gods back to back...
one with a devilish look on her face.. with tears.. (sekhmet) and Bast with a face full of laughter... (laugh now cry later)... in my own version... being that my date had to work the majority of that day.. i felt this was appropriate..
its not fad.. i feel tatoos are apart of my heritage... africans did it.. samoans did it .. indians..and asians did it. So im reclaiming my heritage.. and a sense of never being alone because my ancestors are always there with me..
I have 13 beautiful tattoos....12 are spirtual..1 is sentimental....oldiesman said:this question is for those of you[male and female]with tatoos,did you decide one day to get one for your own reasons or were you following the fad like so many others do?[i've been wondering and would like to hear from you on this subject].